I have written a nice loginscript and a mcafee detection and virusdef update script.
I have realiized these scripts with Kix 3.63

Now I hear of Kix 4.00 Beta 2a and Kix 2001 Beta 2...what's the best one to use?

I have to write scripts in a production enviroment, but I can handle beta's too as long they are quite stable...what do you suggest to use and why?

Thx alot,
Jo

KiX 4.00 is KiX 2001. There have been 3 official Beta releases to date: Beta 1, Beta 2 and Beta 2a (also called Build 11).

Have a look at the Beta forum on the board for dicussions about the changes, differences and bugs found in KiX 2001 Beta. Have a look at ScriptLogics KiXtart Beta page for more info on the releases and bugs fixed etc.

If you are game, have a go at using KiX2k, but I would recommend using 3.6x until KiX2k's official release. If you are confident that you do not need any of the 'not fully working' features of KiX2k, go for it. But keep an eye on the Beta forum and post any problems you discover.

enjoy

cj

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Some remarks:

• why whould you rewrite a working script?
  are there problems when you are running a mixed set of scripts?
  
• significant change is: ExistKey result.
  ExistKey at 3.63 returns a 0.
  ExistKey at 4.00 returns a 1, also the new name is KeyExist.
  
• the biggest benefit of new version is the creation of UDF (= user define
  function), which make your code easilier to write and to read for others.
  

Our suggestion is to run script with both versions. Some members do this
already.
To prevent misunderstandig they are using different extensions f.e.
.kix for kixtart 3.6x and .k2k for kixtart 4.x
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Testing 1000 iterations of '$a=@time'

0: kix 3.62 1111ms
1: kix 3.63 1102ms
2: kix 2001 beta 1 481ms
3: kix 2001 beta 2 521ms
4: kix 2001 beta 2a 510ms

cj

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Timed with nt reskit "timethis"

code:

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break on
$count = 0
While $count =< 1000
$count = 1 + $count
$x = @time
loop

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Run the script 5 times and post fastest times.

3.62 TimeThis : Elapsed Time : 00:00:01.241
3.63 TimeThis : Elapsed Time : 00:00:01.251
4.0B2 TimeThis : Elapsed Time : 00:00:00.670

Macros are a quite a bit faster, however take out the $x = @time and add another zero to the count loop and there is no significant difference in performance.

code:

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break on
$count = 0
While $count =< 10000
$count = 1 + $count
loop

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Notice beta2 is actually taking longer now.
3.62 TimeThis : Elapsed Time : 00:00:01.522
3.63 TimeThis : Elapsed Time : 00:00:01.562
4.0B2TimeThis : Elapsed Time : 00:00:01.632

code:

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KiXpeed Verison 1.3   by cj
Testing 1000 iterations of ''
0: kix 3.62          471ms
1: kix 3.63          450ms
2: kix 2001 beta 1   251ms
3: kix 2001 beta 2   270ms
4: kix 2001 beta 2a  310ms
Done...

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here is the actual code being tested:

code:

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$i=1 do command $i=$i+1 until $i=$iterations

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I am refining the program so that it times the empty loop and subtracts that result from the loop with the command to be tested in. This gives you the actual time for that command.

cj

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[This message has been edited by cj (edited 19 June 2001).]